<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 He has individuals in every church, all different kinds of churches. If a man is a Catholic, and he's depending on the Catholic church for salvation, that man's lost. But if he's a Catholic, and depending on Jesus Christ for salvation... By faith are you saved, and that by the grace of God. Whether he's Baptist, Pentecostal, whatever he is, it's our faith, our personal faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Never draw no boundary lines for organizations. We believe all people are--have the right to be a Christian. "Whosoever will, let him come." No matter what color, creed, what he is, if he's a believer on the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as personal Saviour, he's saved by faith. That's the grace of God that called him.

L-27 Now, we find out that all through the ages God's always had signs and wonders with His people--through all ages, every age. And we go back... Jesus was referring back to them when He seen that they wouldn't believe Him as the Messiah. And He begin to refer back to ages beyond. He said, "Verily, I say unto you that Jonah..." In the days of Jonah...
They'd asked Him for a sign. They said, "Show us a sign." You see, no matter how many things taken place, they didn't see it. That's the same thing today. Why, people set right one by the side of the other one like that, and one can see the power and glory of God, and the other sees nothing. Why, like Paul, the Pillar of Fire, It was... He could see It all right, but them standing by him couldn't see It.
The wise men saw the star. Nobody else saw it--come right over the observatories and everything else, because they wasn't looking for it. You've got to be looking for something. You've got to come with expectation, led of the Holy Spirit. Then God will reveal Himself to you.
Now, we find out that they said "We'd seek a sign from you."
And He said, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs and there'll be no sign given it, but the sign of Jonah."

L-28 Say, I might stop here just a moment, before I get down... We'll try not to keep you too long. I overdone it last night. It was a remarkable thing: I preached a sermon this morning in twenty minutes. Ministers, that's just really good. Usually takes me about three hours to get through one. But some people can preach and say more maybe in fifteen minutes than I could in three hours.
I'm--I'm a southerner. I'm slow, and I just can't think of it too fast. I have to wait on Him to tell me and then I say it. So I never went to any schools or seminaries, so I just have to wait on Him, just say it when He says it, just come after Him. But I'm pretty sure I'm right if I wait on Him. You just suffer a little while with me.

L-29 So then, we find out that the days of Jonah... Now, a lot of people make fun of Jonah, saying, "He was a Jonah." Why, Jonah was no bad fellow. Jonah was a prophet, and he couldn't have got out of the will of God like that. It was all by the will of God. He never took the wrong ship. He took the right ship.
Did you ever read the history of Jonah? It's wonderful. You know, I always felt sorry for him down in the belly of that whale. He had his hands tied, and his feet tied, and in the stormy sea, and throwed out, and the whale swallowed him. And when the whale... A fish feeds; then, when it gets through feeding, it goes down to the bottom and rests itself on the bottom. Feed your little goldfish and watch them. They'll go down, put their little swimmers on the bottom, after they get the belly full, and--and rest awhile.


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